Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Smile more. Frown less. Give it your all. Give it your best.

I think I got a lot of life skills I got a lot of wisdom I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

But Opera Man, I go, "Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?" Because I could sing fake opera pretty good.

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.